Loyalty Quotes - Page 38

• People always think that loyalty is laudable. People are always saying that we must remain faithful to tradition, to family, to our class, to our ideas. Of course not! That would be equivalent to zero brain activity. If you really want to think, to seek truth, to advance intellectually, you must turn your back on clichés, on preconceived ideas - even those belonging to your spiritual family. For an intellectual, his true duty is not to fidelity, but to infidelity.

  Bernard-Henri Levy

  Spiritual, Thinking, People

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• I always think loyalty's such a tiresome virtue.

  Agatha Christie

  Thinking, Virtue, Tiresome

  Agatha Christie (2010). “Peril at End House (Poirot)”, p.24, HarperCollins UK

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• The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.

  Edward Abbey

  Inspirational, Nature, Eye

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.147, University of Arizona Press

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• The finest proof of our loyalty toward one another was our monstrous disloyalties towards everyone else.

  Alain de Botton

  Finest, Proof, Monstrous

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• I wrote to find beauty and purpose, to know that love is possible and lasting and real, to see day lilies and swimming pools, loyalty and devotion, even though my eyes were closed, and all that surrounded me was a darkened room. I wrote because that was who I was at the core, and if I was too damaged to walk around the block, I was lucky all the same. Once I got to my desk, once I started writing, I still believed anything was possible.

  Alice Hoffman

  Block, Real, Writing

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• I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing.

  C. S. Forester

  Agreement, Captains, Suggestions

  "A Ship of the Line". Book by C. S. Forester, 1938.

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• He liked the works of his friends, which is beautiful as loyalty but can be disastrous as judgement.

  Ernest Hemingway

  Beautiful, Judgement

  Ernest Hemingway (2014). “Moveable Feast: The Restored Edition”, p.89, Simon and Schuster

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• I did not love cold harmony and perfect regularity of organization; what I sought was variety, mystery, tradition, the venerable, the awful. I despised sophisters and calculators; I was groping for faith, honor, and prescriptive loyalties. I would have given any number of neo-classical pediments for one poor battered gargoyle.

  Russell Kirk

  Organization, Numbers, Perfect

  Russell Kirk (2014). “The Essential Russell Kirk: Selected Essays”, p.213, Open Road Media

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• I have never been much of a patriot. My father would not have allowed such a thing while he lived, and his death insured that his wish was carried out. Piter commanded far more affection and loyalty from me than the nation as a whole. But that night, running across the unplowed fields of winter wheat, with the Fascist invaders behind us and the dark Russian woods before us, I felt a surge of pure love for my country. We ran for the forest, crashing through the stalks of wheat, beneath the rising moon and the stars spinning farther and farther away, alone beneath the godless sky.

  David Benioff

  Country, Running, Stars

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• Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

  Confucius

  Love, Inspirational, Funny

  Confucius (2013). “Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean”, p.141, Courier Corporation

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• ...I have had such a sickening of men in masses, and of causes, that I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium. I speak only for myself, mind - it is my own truth alone - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is indifferent to me. He is inhuman. And I have nothing to do with nations, or nationalism. The only feelings I have - for what they are - are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.

  Patrick O'Brian

  Men, Feelings, Mind

  Patrick O'Brian (1990). “Master and Commander (Vol. Book 1)”, p.194, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Americans love to pick up, move on, start over. But instead of being somebody fresh and new, they become somebody lonely and lost, or, far too often these days, they become nobody at all, a machine for satisfying hunger, without loyalty or honor or duty.

  Orson Scott Card

  Lonely, Moving, Starting Over

  Orson Scott Card (2005). “Enchantment”, p.172, Del Rey

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• Perhaps, indeed, there are no truly universal ethics: or to put it more precisely, the ways in which ethical principles are interpreted will inevitably differ across cultures and eras. Yet, these differences arise chiefly at the margins. All known societies embrace the virtues of truthfulness, integrity, loyalty, fairness; none explicitly endorse falsehood, dishonesty, disloyalty, gross inequity. (Five Minds for the Future, p136)

  Howard Gardner

  Integrity, Ethical Principles, Differences

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• A lack of affiliation may mean a lack of accountability, and forming a sense of commitment can be hard without a sense of community. Displacement can encourage the wrong kinds of distance, and if the nationalism we see sparking up around the globe arises from too narrow and fixed a sense of loyalty, the internationalism that's coming to birth may reflect too roaming and undefined a sense of belonging.

  Pico Iyer

  Distance, Mean, Commitment

  Pico Iyer (2011). “The Global Soul: Jet Lag, Shopping Malls, and the Search for Home”, p.37, Vintage

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• Social responsibility above the level of family, or at most of tribe, requires imagination-- devotion, loyalty, all the higher virtues -- which a man must develop himself; if he has them forced down him, he will vomit them out.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Responsibility, Men, Imagination

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Starship Troopers”, p.143, Penguin

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• Where the battle rages, there the loyalty of the soldier is proved.

  Martin Luther

  Faith, Wisdom, Soldier

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• Such loyalty is admirable, of course,” said Scrimgeour, who seemed to be restraining his irritation with difficulty, “but Dumbledore is gone, Harry. He’s gone.” “He will only be gone from the school when none here are loyal to him,” said Harry, smiling in spite of himself.

  J. K. Rowling

  School, Irritation, Gone

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• The problem to be faced is: how to combine loyalty to one's own tradition with reverence for different traditions.

  Abraham Joshua Heschel

  Religious, Tolerance, Different

  Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.242, Macmillan

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• I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.

  Agatha Christie

  Believe, I Believe, Castes

  Agatha Christie (1960). “Dame Agatha abroad”

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• People don’t die because of loyalty.” They don’t?” She smiled. “Religion? Government? Are we not loyal to such things, sometimes to the death?” Eddie shrugged. Better,” she said, “to be loyal to one another.

  Mitch Albom

  Government, People, Sometimes

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• Wanting neither too much to live, nor too much to die.

  Janet Morris

  Determination, Brotherhood, Too Much

  Janet Morris, Chris Morris (2010). “The Sacred Band”, p.551, Paradise Publishing

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• I see ranks ready for battle, stretching out. Five, six horses across, ranks in formation. Endlessly.

  Janet Morris

  Determination, Horse, Battle

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• How laudable it is for a prince to keep good faith and live with integrity, and not with astuteness, every one knows. Still the experience of our times shows those princes to have done great things who have had little regard for good faith, and have been able by astuteness to confuse men's brains, and who have ultimately overcome those who have made loyalty their foundation.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, Integrity, War

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2017). “The Prince”, p.55, Knickerbocker Classics

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• For thousands of years, father and son have stretched wistful hands across the canyon of time, each eager to help the other to his side, but neither quite able to desert the loyalties of his contemporaries. The relationship is always changing and hence always fragile; nothing endures except the sense of difference.

  Alan Valentine

  Fathers Day, Son, Hands

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• When you can show concern about what matters to your customer, that's Business to Customer Loyalty, and you can bet on it, you've just acquired a customer for life.

  Albert Houtum-Schindler

  Educational, What Matters, Concern

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